Posts Tagged ‘Technology

01
Apr

Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks for April Fools

Interested in having some fun at work? LifeHacker.com posted the top 10 jokes you can play on your friends.

Read On

I find the broken screen background rather interesting and believe it will work nicely in my meetings today.

24
Mar

XM Radio and Sirius merger approved.

The deal has been approved, Sirius is buying XM Radio for $5B. As a long time XM Radio subscriber I’m interested in the new channels this will provide. I’m also worried, will this require us to purchase new hardware and will I lose some of the channels I listen to. Well I guess we shall see!

You can read the article on engadget.com

24
Mar

Following a Twitter Conversation

Last week I decided to try twitter. I’m interested, but wondering if its useful. I don’t like trying to follow a conversation. Normally I don’t have the time and I just want to read the thread. However, that issue is gone, this morning Leo Laporte leolaporte (TWIT) posted a tool that seems to extend Twitter in a useful way: Quotably.com

19
Jun

Become more productive with EverNote.

Back in January I decided to become more organized. I began by getting rid of all my gadgetsEverNote_ScreenShot
and simplifying my daily processes. My thought, back to basics.

Since then I’ve been searching for tools to help me organize without adding complexity. I found a tool named “EverNote” and I’m currently testing it. The company website defines the tools as follows:

With EverNote 2.0 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, web page excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more! features–>

This is a great tool for anyone who’s looking to move from a paper based process, like a daytimers or franklin covey binder, to an electronic process. I have provided a link to the tool below. I’m also planning to post my tips and tricks as I use the tool. Hopefully you will find these posts useful and I look forward to your feedback.

You can download a free version of EverNote here.

27
Apr

Evernote - Post-it notes on steroids.

Evernote is an Information gathering and management tool. The tool allows the user to save and organize anything from text to pictures.

Evernote Download

07
Apr

NewsGator Extends RSS-Reading Capabilities to Lotus Platform

On March 28th NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS company, announced the release of two Domino based RSS plug-ins. The plug-ins will work with release 6.5 and newer and they are working on a plug-in for Sametime 7.5 too.

“In a recent Forrester study of CIOs, 81 percent of CIOs at firms with more than 500 employees were adopting RSS to improve the efficiency of their businesses. “

RSS is a welcome addition to the Domino Collaboration environment.

06
Apr

Great Forfox Extensions

Bored? If so then the StumbleUpon add-on is for you. This add-on allows you to “channel surf” the internet for interesting sites. If your a web developer there is a tool Firebug, which comes in handy for debugging web applications and ScribeFire is another useful tool if you updates one or more Blogs.